The first story, and main title, stars The Cat in the Hat’s son. At first, he boasts that he can lick thirty tigers today! (“lick” meaning “beat up”…not lick, like an ice cream cone.) His cockiness quickly fades when he is faced with 30 actual tigers, but he is smart and calls one of the tigers out and asks him to step out of line, making his count 29. As you follow along with the story you can actually count the tigers on the page and they will match the number of tigers he claims to be able to lick.
But even 29 seems like a bit much. Saying that he doesn’t want to be too mean he decides to let off agroupof tigers, bringing the count down to 22 tigers. He is still intimidated so he tells the front row of tigers to leave because they’re fingernails are dirty. Now he claims he can lick 13 tigers.
“Well……………………………
Quite a few of you seem underweight.
It’s not fair, after all,
To lick tigers so small.
I think that I’ll only lick eight.I can lick
Eight big tigers today….”
Now the tigers are tightly circled around him. He claims that some of them look tired and dismisses them, saying he can lick three big tigers today. With a desperate look on his face he narrows the count down to one saying that two of them should go lay in the shade because it’s so hot out.
Finally, he is faced with only one big tiger that he claims he can lick, but he quickly runs away saying,
“But…
You know, I have sort of a hunch
That noontime is near.
You just wait for me here.
I’ll beat you up right after lunch.”
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